This little girl is very special to me. She has a head too large for her body and a belly that is swollen and legs that are so skinny she can hardly walk on them but she is so beautiful! I fell in love with her one day when I saw her standing next to me looking a little lost and shy so I gently touched her shoulder and she immediately melted into my leg and her reaction is something I won't ever forget. She never said a word she just looked at me begging me to love her and I did. Though she walked very slowly she would follow me around and hug my leg quietly and sweetly. I miss this little girl and I think about her every day and wonder how she is doing and if she knows how special she is and that someone loves her very much.

This is a video of me and her....and a lot of everything else that was going on around us.

Kedesh

I LOVE THESE GUYS! The Kedesh orphanage is an all boys orphanage that is more like a big family. The boys here are very well taken care of and most of them speak English because of the man that runs it who is from the US. We loved visiting Kedesh because the boys are so much fun! The picture above is of them with their new blankets that we tied.

Capueira

As a thank you for the blankets we were invited over for food and dancing. The boys showed us their sweet capueira moves that were amazing to watch!

There's so much talent at the Kedesh orphanage! Dancing, singing, capueira, and cooking...these guys are awesome!

Water fight at Kedesh!

Water fights happen often at Kedesh because of the heat and humidity. It was a warm day on one of our visits so naturally a water fight broke out...and this is their winter!

SOAKED!

Noemia

This is my friend Noemia. She is a little girl we met at the Dondo Orphanage. My friend Stacy met her two years before I did when she volunteered with CFL and asked me to find her and take pictures with her. She was shy at first, but we became good friends! We took nail polish on one of our visits and she decided she wanted her nails pink and she helped me paint them...

Then she decided she wanted to paint all by herself...


Check out the talent!! Of course when the other girls saw her painting my nails they all wanted to try painting too so by the end of our visit I had about 10 layers of pink nail polish on my nails...We had a lot of fun painting but...I am glad someone thought to bring nail polish remover!